I think JarodRussell is laboring under the notion that there is only one degree of "dead". There's dead as in the heart has stopped and ain't about to start again without intervention and then there's brain death...and I think brain stem death too. Legal and medical definitions have shifted over the years as medical science pushed back the point of no return.

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Exactly. If you can be revived, you never were actually dead.

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So by that logic, if medical science advances to the point that it can successfully reanimate a corpse days, weeks, months or even years later then they were never *really* dead? Yeah, didn't think so.

Hell, 24 had Tony Almeida die in Season 5 and have his 'death' explained away in Season 7. If I can take that in a 'real world' drama, I can cope with it in a continuity that features helicarriers, Tony Stark's technology and gamma rays turning you into a green monster.

"Whedon has found the perfect balance of Marvel and his trademark witty dialogue with S.H.I.E.L.D. The world is very Marvel, with callbacks and references littered throughout the episode, but the dialogue and ensemble delivers everything you love about Whedon.

^Where does it say she's recurring? That link only says she's in the pilot.

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She's not recurring... yet. But may appear again down the line.

The Newsarama link four posts above said this, by way of the Hollywood Reporter...

Cobie Smulders is reprising her role as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in the show's pilot, though it's described at this point as a "one-off cameo role." Smulders is under contract to CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which starts its ninth and final season this fall. Yet the article does state that there's a possibility she'll return in a similar capacity in the future.